Global Issues
News headlines for “Free Trade and Globalization”, page 261
Towards a Sustainable Future: Case of China’s Economic Transformation
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Aug 13 (IPS) - The Asia-Pacific region is at a crossroads. The traditional export-oriented, manufacturing-driven growth is facing headwinds from sluggish external demand and rising protectionist trade measures.
To Uplift a Woman is to Uplift a Village
- Inter Press Service
DAR ES SALAAM, Tanzania, Aug 10 (IPS) - Khadija Zuberi, 23, from Ruaha Mbuyuni village, Iringa in Tanzania's southern highlands is a single mother to her four-year-old son, Hashim.
The World Bank Needs to Understand Poverty and What it Actually Costs a Family to Live on
- Inter Press Service
BRUSSELS, Aug 09 (IPS) - Sharan Burrow is General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC)
The World Bank claims poverty is decreasing around the world but UN research shows it depends on what you measure. If we are serious about reducing poverty, we need to start by properly identifying it.
Burning Forests for Rain, and Other Climate Catastrophes
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Aug 09 (IPS) - The villagers living on the foothills of Mount Kenya have a belief: If they burn the forest, the rains will come.
The Nairobi Summit - Towards a Watershed Moment
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 08 (IPS) - In 2019 a female scientist created an algorithm that gave the world the first ever images of a black hole. Working with a team of astronomers, physicists, mathematicians and engineers, a young woman led the development of a computer program that in her own words enabled them to "achieve something once thought impossible."
Bretton Woods Institutions: Enforcers, Not Saviours?
- Inter Press Service
SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 07 (IPS) - According to their own internal evaluations, both the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have huge credibility deficits due to the policy conditionalities and advice they have dispensed to developing countries in recent decades.
What a Little Pigeon Could Teach Our World
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON DC, Aug 06 (IPS) - It's time we teach our children about conservation – before it's too late.
Over 100 years ago a little brown passenger pigeon named Martha died in the Cincinnati Zoo. She was the last of her breed. Just like that, in an instant, a bird species that had once numbered in the billions was wiped out forever.
Producing Clean Energy from Pigsties in Brazil
- Inter Press Service
ENTRE RIOS DO OESTE, Brazil, Aug 06 (IPS) - Pigs, already the main source of income in this small municipality in southwestern Brazil, now have even more value as a source of electricity.
Saudi Arabia Easing Male Guardianship: But More is Needed
- Inter Press Service
AMMAN, Jordan, Aug 05 (IPS) - Suad Abu-Dayyeh is Middle East and North Africa Consultant for Equality Now.
It comes as welcome news that authorities in Saudi Arabia have taken important steps towards dismantling the repressive male guardianship system, which treats women in the country as minors.
A Call for Healthy, Blue Oceans in Asia and the Pacific
- Inter Press Service
BANGKOK, Thailand, Aug 05 (IPS) - Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana is UN Under-Secretary-General and Executive Secretary of the U.N. Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP).
Leaders at the Group of 20 summit last month agreed on the "Osaka Blue Ocean Vision," which aims to reduce additional pollution by marine plastic litter to zero by 2050. The UN Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) stands ready to support Japan and other countries in the region to ensure healthy and sustainable oceans.
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